Admittedly, I don’t have a lot to say today, but since I’ll be away for the next week and a half, it seemed like I should put something out here for anyone that might happen to read it. So I’ll provide a potpourri for you, a few quick thoughts that may have no connection to each other at all.
Today is one of those days when we have what the locals like to call “Chamber of Commerce weather.” The temperatures are comfortable, the humidity is down, the sun is shining … if you came to visit Jacksonville today, you’d want to stay. In fact, when I came to Jacksonville for the first time, for an APPX conference nine years ago this month, this was exactly how the weather was. It helped to make the ensuing job offer that much easier to accept, compared to facing the beginning of another long, cold, snowy winter in Syracuse.
I admit it … I watched the presidential debate on Tuesday night. And I feel somewhat dirty about it. I probably didn’t scream at the TV as much as I did during last Sunday’s football game, but the frustration and the rant were similar: “Can’t anyone tackle that guy?” “Can’t anyone tackle that subject?”
Time and money. Two things that we would probably all agree we don’t have enough of, right? But what is the relationship between the two? Can we just say, “Time is money,” and leave it at that? No, that wouldn’t make for much of a blog. Pink Floyd had a song called Time and another called Money, the latter being mostly in 7/4 time, which is a very unusual time signature, and I’m sure they made a lot of money on both. But I’d like to examine both, and perhaps question the logic behind some very basic assumptions. After all, it’s never satisfactory to leave well enough alone, is it?